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Chapter 13 marks the beginning of Part II, which describes other worlds visited by A Square. On the last day of the 1999th year, he dreams of visiting Lineland, a one-dimensional, linear world populated by small straight lines and points. An illustration of A Square's view of Lineland is included. In the dream, A Square assumes that the strange chirping creatures he sees must be women. He approaches one of the largest, which happens to be the Monarch of Lineland, and places his mouth right in front of the creature.
Part II marks the section where Abbott more directly deals with knowledge and ignorance. Lineland represents a world that is devoid of higher truths, such as the second dimension that Flatlanders enjoy. It then demonstrates the consequences of remaining ignorant, as made evident in the way the Monarch of Lineland is portrayed.
A Square apologizes for possibly startling the Monarch of Lineland, and proceeds to ask him questions about Lineland, despite the king's arrogance in responding. A Square finds out that the ignorant king believes the Straight Line (on which they live) is the entirety of his kingdom, world, and universe. The Monarch is incapable of conceiving of anything outside the line that he inhabits. Therefore, he did not acknowledge A Square at all until he positioned his mouth along the line, in the king's world.
The Monarch is a good example of what a person can become if they refuse to think beyond what they already know. He is arrogant and does not offer a listening ear to A Square at all. In some way, the Monarch is an analogical representation of the Circles in Flatland, content with the power they hold and refusing to accept any new knowledge that threatens the status quo.
The inhabitants of Lineland are male lines and female points who are stuck in motion and in vision to the straight line that consists of their whole world. All Linelanders can see are points, and they distinguish another's sex and age through voice. Since no one can move left or right, no Linelander can pass each other, and thus they have the same neighbors for life. A Square notes that the limited lives of the Linelanders seem dismal, and he is surprised that the Monarch of Lineland is so cheerful and lively.
Lineland offers a bleak view of what it is like to be willfully ignorant. Physically stuck on a line, the people of Lineland are doomed for life, in both literal and religious senses. Thus, Abbott suggests how important it is to seek knowledge and religious truths. At the time Abbott firmly opposed the Tractarians, whose influence was growing in England, and who strongly emphasized the authority of the Church and scripture, much in the same way that the Linelanders take for granted their world as the entirety of existence.
A Square then asks the Monarch of Lineland how his people marry and produce offspring when they are confined to a line. The Monarch answers impatiently that proximity is not necessary for the generation of children, and that it instead occurs through sound and the sense of hearing.
Since the Linelanders are limited to one dimension, they depend solely on their sense of hearing. However, take note of the fact that they still have the means to perceive new ideas if ever presented them. Thus, Abbott argues that wisdom depends on the will to receive new knowledge and the humility to accept one's ignorance.
The Monarch of Lineland continues by explaining that every man has two mouths and two voices, a bass and a tenor one. He admits that he assumed A Square to be a feminine monster with a bass voice. The king then states that Nature has dictated that every man should wed two wives to harmoniously meld the bass and tenor of the man to the soprano and contralto voices of two women. Once a week, every man sends out their most beautiful sound, marriages are consummated, and two girls and one boy are born from each union.
Lineland is similar to Flatland in the way it is governed by certain "laws of nature," and the way that those laws uphold the social hierarchy—allowing for those who don't fit in to be considered "monsters," while others can be considered the head of the state.


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"Be aggressive," advises Steve Haynes of Olney, Md., whose own perseverance got quick action from his mortgage lender, his credit-card issuer and the credit bureau.
When he checked their Experian reports the same night, Steve discovered that the potentially negative item involved a home-equity line of credit with Chevy Chase Bank. "The report wasn't specific, but I knew the information had to be in error because the account has always been in good standing," he says.
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But the saga doesn't end there. A week later, Steve found that Citibank had charged a $35 over-limit fee "for exceeding a limit that we weren't even aware of" and that had been imposed in error. A couple of phone calls later, he reached a Citibank manager who agreed to remove the fee on the spot.
On March 18, two weeks after the original denial, Citibank sent a letter notifying the Hayneses that their original credit limit had been restored. And Experian followed up with an e-mail explaining that its records had been updated as of April 12. "Be persistent," says Steve, who put that trait to good use during his career in law enforcement. "It's in your hands to correct a mistake."


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Two banks are allowing their customers to access accounts on their smartphones using fingerprint recognition technology, in a U.K, industry first, reports the BBC.
RBS and NatWest customers must activate the feature with their security information, but would only need to use Apple's Touch ID thereafter.
The banks said that, after three failed login attempts, customers would have to re-enter their passcodes.
But a security expert expressed concern that Touch ID is not secure enough. The banks, both part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, said that the feature would be available on the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus. Customers would have to enable the feature using their existing login details.
According to The Guardian, the list of third-party apps adopting Touch ID to secure their contents or authenticate purchases has expanded in recent months with apps including Evernote and Dropbox, password managers such as LastPass and 1Password, and shops such as Amazon all now supporting the fingerprint sensor.
A spokesman for RBS NatWest said: "Never has banking for U.K. customers been more at their fingertips, or fingerprints. RBS and NatWest customers will be the first of any UK-based bank to be able to log in to their mobile banking app using only their fingerprint.
The technology recognises customers' unique finger print so they don't have to remember a tricky login passcode." RBS said nearly half of its 15 million customers actively use online banking, with more than 3 million customers using the mobile app every week. It estimates that it has around 1.8 million active iPhone users, of which 880,000 use an iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 plus. It says 167,000 customers use the banking app each day on their way to work between 7am and 8am.


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Sex Abuse Scandal Hits Home for Pope Francis
Joseph H. Saunders	 Nov 29, 2019
A court in Argentina has convicted two Catholic priests of sexually abusing deaf children at a now shuttered school in Argentina.
Mr. Corradi, 83, was sentenced to 42 years in prison, and another priest, the Rev. Horacio Hugo Corbacho Blanck, 59, of Argentina, was sentenced to 45 years in prison. A former gardener at the school, Armando Ramón Gómez Bravo, 49, of Argentina, received a sentence of 18 years.
The three defendants had each faced numerous charges and had been in prison or under house arrest since the allegations came to light three years ago. Mr. Corbacho was the only one of the three to testify; he denied the charges, and the other two defendants did not testify, according to Gustavo Stroppiana, the prosecutor in the case.
According to court testimony, the sexual abuse occurred between the years 2005 and 2016. Pope Francis knew about the abuse as early as 2014 but did not act until after their arrest in 2017.
A Washington Post investigation this year found years of church inaction in the case of at least one of the priests convicted Monday in the abuse of male and female students at the Antonio Provolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in the western Argentine city of Luján de Cuyo between 2004 and 2016.
Another case from Argentina involves someone Pope Francis himself elevated to the episcopacy. An Argentine prosecutor has requested international assistance in the capture of a senior Catholic prelate, Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, who is accused of criminal sexual misconduct with seminarians in his native Argentina, and whose last known address was in Vatican City.
According to the Catholic Herald, "The details and timeline of the Zanchetta case are complex, but the bones of the story are that Pope Francis appointed Zanchetta, with whom he had served at the bishops' conference of Argentina for several years, to the diocese of Orán in 2013. Francis had received complaints about Zanchetta, backed by documentary evidence including pornographic images involving "young people" and compromising photographs of Zanchetta himself, as early as 2015. In the face of that evidence, Francis summoned Zanchettaand asked for an account. Zanchetta said his phone had been hacked, and that the rumours regarding his behaviour came from quarters ill-disposed to the Pope.
Short version: Francis accepted Zanchetta's story and sent him home to continue governing the Church in Orán. Two years and several complaints later, Francis told him to resign, then sent him for several a three months' mental health evaluation, before appointing him to a specially created position in the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA, roughly the Vatican's central bank): the office of "assessor' to the APSA, which did not exist until Francis decided Zanchettawas too valuable to let go."
This from a Pope who publicly proclaims a zero tolerance policy concerning sexual abuse. The Catholic Herald correctly writes, "For the moment, there is one cleric who matters more than any other, indeed all the others taken together: Pope Francis, who did not create the crisis that has engulfed the Church, but owns the Zanchetta affair from start to finish."
The sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is not over because the rot and corruption starts from the top. Nothing has changed or will change until church leadership is changed permanently.
Eric Bonetti
The news that the church has turned a blind eye to abuse should come as no surprise. Time and again we see evidence that this is the modus operandi for most churches—put the reputation of the organization first, and the wellbeing of the people second. Indeed, that is my own experience with the supposedly progressive Episcopal church—it will do almost anything in its power to avoid actually calling abusive clergy to account.
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Have you modified anything at all in the file or is it fresh out of the contribution package?
Installed the latest copy and all i get when i click edit is a blank page.
I have also install Manual Order Maker on top and i can create a order which opens up edit_order.php with no problem.
but then when i try and add a product to the new order i get a blank page with no errors.
I have seen that some one had the same problem but i cant see a fix.
Any one have any idea where the problem might be?
Okay stupid question but where is that header you talking about? Sorry for being so unsure of things but like I said I don't want to be stupid I want to learn.
Okay I think I found that just copy and paste that yes?
Need help. can't delete the order.
After installing the order editor.
It seems that i cannot delete the order.
when first click the "delete" button, it direct to a new page which you can choose to restock the quantity.
It was here that i cannot "confirm delete" the order.
When i click "delete" it directs to the order details instead of deleting the order.
i have changed nothing, simply add the php given in the file cos i know nothing about php.
I am using the latest order editor v5.0.6 with two bug fixes that is last updated on 8 sep.
Need help. can delete the order.
When I try to add or remove a product, either using the ajax version or the non-ajax, the product gets added/removed correctly, but then all of the order totals (subtotal, tax, shipping, order total, etc) get set to 0. Any ideas?
Ignore that, I upgraded from 5.0.3 to 5.0.6 and all is well.
As far as I know Order Editor doesn't do anything to the delete button or it's functionality. All of that is contained within admin/orders.php which is only changed minimally.
Undo the changes that you made and start over.
Thanks for your reply. I did not change any of the coding, Basically. i just add the file and replace the old one.
I find it weird too! can someone pls help.
It seems that there is broken link with "delete" button.
1)The new Add Product Module is worst than the last one, the one in ver 3, and very similar to original one, so very slow and incomplete.
everything else seems fine, but just as it where with ver 2.9 with i will stick with till all these bugs will be fixed, or till i've got enought time to fix them myself.
Just my 2 cent. Enjoy this great contrib, wich save us lot of time during the working process.
i have installed this great contrib (v5.0.5 with updated installation instructions) a couple of days ago and it works fine. Thank you.
I just have one problem with my discount module (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,248/ v1.1) and with the shipping quote in the order totals table.
I have read that there is a fix for ot_payment for older versions of order editor but i didnt manage to apply this fix to this version.
This is a minor problem. When i choose the shipping qoute via radio button the correct value is restored.
How would you incorporate this into the order editor so that the admin side use quantity price breaks?
Did you find a fix to this issue? I also noticed that is you have the Discount Coupon mod installed and add another product the discount is not recalculated. Anyone else having this issue?
I installed 5.0.6 and works great. Only problem is when I add a custom field to the order total with a minus value it substracts it from the order total and not order SUBtotal.
Is this an order editor bug?
Do I have to alter order editor's code to realise this? Or has this been solved?
I've just finished the install and 99% of everyting is looking good!!
I dunno everything seems ok and working ok but what's up with the Divsion by zero error?
First of all, thank you very much for this highly sophisticated order editing tool.
I installed version 5.0.6 today. Now I'm checking that it works as it should but it does something with the sort order of the order total modules which I don't like. I had a look at the edit_orders_ajax.php but honestly, I don't want to mess it up so I better ask how I can change the sort order.
I want to display ot_netto and ot_tax at the end as ot_subtotal, ot_shipping and ot_total are all including tax.
The calculation seems to be correct at first glance but how do I move the ot_tax to be listed after ot_netto?
I was looking at the code in the cart and I'm curious, to implement the Quantity price break I think I just need to edit the cart. Would I be correct in this assumption?
In the confirmation mail after changing an order the prices are showed as EUR100,00.
I would like to change this in €100,00. How can I do this?
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Wang Kelian RCI: Six human skeletons found during follow-up search
Monday, 22 Apr 2019 06:15 PM MYT
Witness ASP Jamaluddin Shah Mohd Jawan is pictured during the second day of the Wang Kelian Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) hearing in Putrajaya April 18, 2019. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — The seventh witness in the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the discovery of mass graves and transit camps in Wang Kelian, Perlis, today testified that he found six human skeletons and 20 grave-like structures during a follow-up search at Bukit Wang Burma on Aug 15, 2015.
ASP Jamaluddin Shah Mohd Jawan, now head of the Anti-Crime and Community Safety Division at the Tumpat district police headquarters (IPD), said the search was led by him who was at that time an Inspector with the Padang Besar IPD Special Branch, together with a team from the Perlis state contingent headquarters (IPK).
"The skeletal remains were found all over the raised platforms at the camp structures which were made from canvas material and wood, and the place fenced up with barbed wire," he told the RCI.
The witness said the camp was located in Bukit Wang Burma, Perlis, about 50 metres from the Malaysia-Thailand border and an hour's walk from the Wang Kelian camp.
He said he then made a report at the Perlis police IPK on the discovery of the six human skeletons and 20 graves.
Jamaluddin Shah said following inspection by a forensic team, the 20 graves were found to contain skeletal remains.
The campsite at Bukit Wang Burma was the last discovery from the follow-up search that he made after the campsite at Wang Kelian was found in January 2015, said the witness who had served for nine years at the Padang Besar IPD's Special Branch.
Before the discovery of the camp at Bukit Wang Burma, Jamaluddin Shah said that in March 2015, follow-up search at two more locations, namely Genting Perah and Perlis State Park, found 18 small camps.
The search, he said, was conducted by the Special Branch of the Perlis IPK and of the Padang Besar IPD together with VAT 69 of the Royal Malaysian Police, to ensure that no area was missed out in the search for more of such settlement camps.
"This was because the translation of the content in the Thai language of a notebook found at the Wang Kelian camp in 2015 told of other camps in nearby areas," he said.
Jamaluddin Shah, in his testimony, also said that based on his experience, the location of the detention camp for illegal migrants in Thailand being very close to the border with Perlis, was a factor for the illegals to try their luck to enter Malaysia.
"Most of the illegals that I interrogated (while serving in Padang Besar) admitted to being from the detention camps for illegals on the Thailand side of the border area," he said. — Bernama
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Keeping their word
UW scholars help preserve Native languages
Just as conservationists work to protect the world's plant and animal species, another community of scholars and activists is focusing on another form of diversity: human languages.
"Existing languages are specific records of human life on Earth in particular places that have been essentially orally transmitted across millennia," says Rand Valentine, a UW-Madison professor of linguistics. Valentine is an expert on Ojibwe, one of the Native American languages that are the focus of study and preservation efforts in Wisconsin.
Like Valentine, Monica Macaulay is also a professor of linguistics on a similar mission, working to help preserve the languages of the Potawatomi and Menominee nations. Both scholars develop tools such as dictionaries, lessons and guidebooks – called "grammars" – that teachers can use to share tribal languages with their students.
Macaulay says many tribal members are not fluent in their native languages, which have become increasingly obsolete over the past few generations. Classroom education has become a critical part of the preservation effort, reviving these languages among the young.
Valentine understands the shortcomings of the current educational system and is trying to make the process easier for both teachers and students. This motivation has changed the way he approaches his work.
"It's not just a simple question of what are the principal parts of this verb and that noun, but how do we help children under the difficult circumstances in which they find themselves trying to learn the language," Valentine explains. "To speak an Algonquian language you need to be fluent in hundreds of different inflectional forms."
Macaulay has compiled two dictionaries thus far — one for beginners and a second, more intermediate version.
Tapes of Menominee language
in the office of Monica Macaulay.
Credit: University Communications
The beginner's dictionary is organized by topic and can be used by teachers in the classroom. The intermediate dictionary has more words and is organized like a standard bilingual dictionary.
Both dictionaries are available in print and online. The online version includes sound clips, useful in perfecting the pronunciation of words.
For the time being, Macaulay's work is available only to the Menominee tribe. The books are held exclusively by tribal members, and the website requires a password to enter.
"I think the sense is that outsiders came in and took so many things away, and they sort of feel like this is one of the last things they've got, and so just they are going to have it," she says.
Macaulay is currently working on a grammar of the language that is more specifically aimed at teachers.
"A lot of the existing linguistic material is in such technical terms that it doesn't make sense to non-linguists," says Macaulay. She is making an effort to steer away from that pattern.
Valentine, meanwhile, is working to preserve the Ojibwe language, which itself is diversified through many dialects and writing systems. To help standardize the language, he has developed computer programs that help people switch between writing systems. This can allow people in different locations to communicate with their preferred writing style, without the text's meaning getting lost in transliteration.
A JEWEL OF IDENTITY
Language preservation goes far deeper than simply keeping a language from extinction.
"I think a lot of young Ojibwe kids, especially in Canada, have real identity problems because they don't know who they are," says Valentine. "Language can help them realize the beauty of their own heritage and history. It really helps kids to learn the language in terms of recognition of who they are and the worthiness of their heritage. It's just an incredible jewel in life to have that."
"To be deprived of language has the opposite effect," he continues. "You really feel like you've lost something or had it stolen. Of course, the history of both Canada and the United States tends to support such a view."
Macaulay agrees. "It's very symbolic as part of native culture," she says.
"Language can help [children]
realize the beauty of their own
heritage and history. To be
deprived of language has the
opposite effect."
In addition to its cultural importance, both professors see their work with tribes as a way to preserve the beauty and history of these languages.
"These are absolutely beautiful languages and I have a great interest in helping preserve them," says Valentine. "Not preserve them like something in a jar, but as living languages that can change with the times and develop as all living languages do; as all living things do."
Valentine says language can also provide a glimpse into the past. When a language dies, a part of human history dies as well. With the death of aboriginal languages, thousands of years of human life on this continent vanish.
TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED
A driving force behind language extinction is the media, according to Valentine. Television and the Internet are influential, especially for young people, and both forms of media primarily expose tribal members to English.
English is also the predominant language outside their communities, and even within them. In most places education is in a European language. Macaulay sees the loss of native languages as an aspect of colonization.
"For almost 100 years, the United States took native children away from their parents, put them in schools that were usually far away, and very explicitly forbid them to use their languages," she explains. "They cut their hair, they made them dress in appropriate clothes for the day, and they really tried to give them a sense that their languages and cultures were something to be ashamed of. It had a powerful and very negative effect."
That disconnection and loss came home with them, Macaulay says.
"When the children came back to their communities, sometimes they didn't even remember their languages," she continues. "But even if they did, they often did not want to teach their own children the language because they didn't want them to be punished like they were punished. Eventually, the natural chain of transmission was broken."
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In the face of these challenges, Valentine and Macaulay's teaching resources can help spread and preserve the languages, and add to the available set of tools. That includes the Master Apprentice Program, which pairs a fluent elder with a younger person interested in learning the language. Because a classroom setting can sometimes lack the emotion and relevancy needed to truly learn a language, the Master Apprentice Program provides different benefits. Similar to an immersion program, it encourages students to converse in the language, which can aid learning immensely.
Over time, both professors have established many meaningful relationships with tribal members, which has enhanced their work.
"This is so important to people who I really care about," says Macaulay, "so I feel like it's something I really need to put my energies into."
However, these close friendships have also brought hardships.
"Possibly the hardest part is that the remaining speakers are elderly," she says. "You become very attached to some of these people; you know them for several years, and several have already passed away. It's sad."
Both Macaulay and Valentine intend to continue to develop new tools that will help keep these cultural and historical treasures alive in future generations.
"I'd like to write another grammar of this area's Ojibwe," says Valentine. "Well, actually, I'd like to write about eight grammars, one for each beautiful dialect."


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In 1985 at 60 years old my Grandmother decided to move to China to teach English. While she spent most of her six months in the country teaching in the city of Dalian located on the east side of the Yellow Sea, she did have a chance to travel throughout. When she left, she even took a train from Beijing to West Berlin. I was only three years old at the time, but over the course of the last 30 years she has described her experiences in vivid detail a bit at a time. The China she knew was only about a decade past the turbulent "Cultural Revolution" period. She described streets filled with far more bicycles than cars. English speakers were difficult to find, even in large cities. Telephones capable of calling back to the U.S. were few and the cost was substantial. The primary means by which she communicated with my grandfather was by mail; letters could take up to weeks to arrive. Her depiction is of a country rich in culture and history, as well as one with a great deal of possibility, but a nation with a long way to go to realize it's full potential.
Through my grandmother's account, I formed a very vivid picture of China, or at least what China was like around the time I was born. The country I saw this past week bares little resemblance to the one my grandmother knew just three decades ago. There were far more cars than bikes, it seemed that everyone under the age of 30 spoke or at least understood some English and smart phones were ubiquitous. In fact, my only challenge in calling back home was accounting for the twelve-hour time difference. As one of our hosts at Peking University put it, "China went through the same industrialization process in 50 years that took the West 300." This rapid transformation was evident everywhere, not just in the big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. During our train journey, one could see construction everywhere. However, I think it would be overly simplistic to characterize what has happened in China as merely rapid advancements in infrastructure. Much of this change also seems to be cultural. I mentioned in my last blog that I was surprised that gender equality in China was far more advanced than I had anticipated. Newsweek published an article this week supporting my observation. This rapid advancement appears to have left a palpable energy and sense of possibility in its wake that I have always imagined was pervasive in the West around the turn of the twentieth century.
While the last three decades have been good for China, and their long-term prospects look good, there may be trouble ahead. I had heard how bad the air pollution problem is in China, but I had anticipated that it would mostly be around big cities. I was surprised to see that smog was omnipresent throughout our nearly six-hour train ride from Shanghai to Beijing, it didn't matter if we were passing through a city or rice fields. I have to imagine this problem will be costly on the Chinese medical system over the long term.
During our visit to Bengbu we were struck by how much new construction there was, but how there didn't seem to be many people or cars there were around the new side of town. I lived through the housing bubble in South Florida, and I was left with the impression that China may be heading down a similar road. It would seem the Chinese might have overbuilt. I found two interesting articles that speak to the potential for a recession in China (links #2 & #3).
"China's Coming Crash?"
"This is how you know China is worried"
In Business School we use the terms "B-to-B" (business-to-business) and "B-to-C" (business-to-customer) often, but I had not heard "C-to-C" before my trip to China. When I asked about its meaning I was told by a local that it meant "Copy-to-China". Essentially, "C-to-C" means take what a business is doing or producing in some other part of the world, copy it, and then sell it in China. This approach to Intellectual Property (IP) is obviously unfair to those who play by the rules, but I think it also hurts China in the long run. For example, CNN recently did a piece on China's Space Program. The organization is very interested in partnering with NASA, but has thus far has been repeatedly turned down over fears they will steal American technology. I am afraid the Chinese business community will face similar roadblocks over fear of IP infringement.
While I do think these challenges will catch up to China soon, I think they will be little more than speed bumps in China's ascendency as a world economic power. Overall, I absolutely loved China and its people. The AdVENTURE Challenge: China trip was truly a pleasure. I learned a ton and I look forward to going back someday to see how the China story continues to play out.
Justin Gordon is a first year MBA candidate who was born in Oak Harbor, WA but grew up the son of a Navy pilot and moved quite a bit. His other "hometowns" include Honolulu, HI; Brunssum, The Netherlands; Burke, VA; and Leavenworth, KS. He attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Government in 2004. Justin then went to helicopter flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL, where he earned his "wings of gold" in 2006. His tours of duty included four years at Coast Guard Air Station Miami, FL and four years at Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, NJ. At Smith, he has been active in the Armed Forces Association and Smith Pride Alliance. Following graduation, he will return to the Coast Guard in a budgetary position.
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A battle of undefeated teams took place Monday afternoon as the 7-0 Blue Wave took on the 7-0 Ludlowe Falcons. Coach Meghan Skelton's squad came into the match with high hopes that their experience and determination could help them knock off Darien and make them the team to beat in the FCIAC.
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Darien has dominated the regional volleyball scene for the last two decades. Going back to 1993, the Blue Wave have won outright, or shared, 18 FCIAC titles. And they made Monday's match look like a walk in the park, easily defeating Ludlowe in three straight sets, 25-12, 25-18 and 25-15 to drop the Falcons from the ranks of the unbeaten.
"We were riding a roller-coaster, unfortunately. We did well and then we crashed down," Skelton told the Darien News after the match. "We did well and we crashed down. And you can't do that against great teams. We were out of position a lot and simple errors added up."
The Falcons led in both the first and third sets and we're tied at 17-17 in set two before Darien took command. Senior Keki Cardenas had six kills, four blocks and four digs to lead Ludlowe while Olivia Auray added 11 digs and five kills.
And knowing that the Falcons could meet Darien again in the FCIAC tournament, Skelton had a message for her players.
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In other volleyball action, Notre Dame lost to New Milford on Monday to fall to 2-8 on the season. The Lancers fell by scores of 25-14, 25-7 and 25-20.
Warde and Westhill battled to a 2-2 tie Tuesday in Fairfield as Brendan King scored twice for the Mustangs, getting assists from Michael Morataya and Kieran O'Day. The tie left Warde with a 3-3-2 record.
Ludlowe and Danbury played to a 1-1 tie on Tuesday in Danbury as the Falcon's Michael McArdle scored in the first half off an assist from Tarcio Almedia. Goalkeeper Fred Meagher made six saves for Ludlowe, which improved to 6-0-2.
Fairfield Prep won its second game in a row, beating Xavier 4-1 Tuesday in Fairfield. The Jesuits moved to 3-4-1.
Ludlowe fell to 2-5-1 on the season after losing to Danbury 2-0 Monday.
Warde, however, improved to 7-1 after Tuesday's 2-1 win over Staples in Westport. Liz Gallucci and Fia Mancini scored for the Mustangs. Goalkeeper Katie Stepsis had eight saves for the winners.
Ludlowe defeated Danbury 103 to 69 Monday at the Fairfield University Rec Plex pool to improve its season record to 2-3, winning nine races.
In the 200-meter medley relay, Hannah Arman, Brittany Marson, Biranna Auray and Grace Holmberg won with a time of 2:20.33 while Arman, Holmberg, Auray and Sarah Grinalds teamed to win the 400-meter freestyle relay in 4:36.63.
Prep (5-2) lost a thrilling boys' dual meet against Guilford Tuesday, falling by a single point, 28-29. Prep's George Crist ran the 2.9-mile course in 15:34, good for second place overall, while Jack McGowen (15:49) took third, Chris Nillson (16:26) placed fifth and Matt Rusin (16:33) was seventh.
Notre Dame-Fairfield (1-6) fell in a meet against Brookfield (16-47) and Bethel (20-41) Tuesday in Brookfield. Ryan Kelly finished the 3.1-mile course in 18:33, good for sixth place overall.
Ludlowe (7-3) took two wins in races against Staples, Trumbull and Central, losing to the Wreckers 15-49 but beating the Eagles 27-30 and the Hilltoppers 15-50. Ben Ertel finished the 2.95-mile course in ninth place in 16:29.
Warde (9-3) also won two matches Tuesday against Danbury and Westhill, beating the Hatters 24-31 and the Vikings 15-48. The Mustangs were paced by Alex Petrecca, who placed fourth, followed by William Brisman (fifth), Charles Keiffer (seventh), Roman Colao (eighth) and Jackson Stearns (10th).
Warde (7-4) defeated Danbury 18-40 Tuesday. Sarah Radziewicz finished the 2.4-mile course to place second overall. Other top finishers for the Mustangs were: Gabi Galletta (third), Isabelle Radziewicz (sixth), Julia Mulenberg (seventh), Natalia Zhiltsova (eighth) and Catherine Jacobi (10th).
Ludlowe (5-4) defeated Trumbull but lost to Ridgefield and Staples in a tri-meet race Tuesday. The Falcons beat the Eagles 27-30, but fell to the Tigers 15-48 and to the Wreckers 22-35.
Notre Dame (2-8) fell to Bethel and Brookfield in a meet Tuesday. The Lancers (2-9) were led by Caitlin Lonergan, who placed fifth with a time of 22:50.
Notre Dame battled to a scoreless tie with New Fairfield Monday. The Lancers are enjoying a solid season to date, standing 5-1-1.
Luldowe, which had only scored nine goals in its opening seven games, scored seven on Monday in a 7-0 rout of Norwalk. The Falcons improved to 2-4-2.


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BSIP joins hands with Govt of UP to combat COVID 19 in the state
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The Government of India, along with the State Governments, has been relentlessly working for prevention, containment, and management of COVID-19. Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology (DST), joined hands with the Government of Uttar Pradesh to combat COVID-19 in the state. BSIP, as one of the five Central Government Research Institutes in Lucknow, took initial steps to start laboratory testing of COVID-19.
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Q: Adding an Extra character in a .mrc script I'm using a .mrc script to add a data output to irc currently I'm outputting like this -----> [iNFO] - 12 / 125M/S. What I would like to do is output like this [iNFO] - 12F / 125M/S, so what I need is to add the "F" after the 12.
Here's the code snippet I use
`scon 19 msg #test [iNFO] - $remove($strip($4),$chr(44)) F / $remove($strip($6),$chr(44))`

As you can see that outputs like this [iNFO] - 12 F / 125M/S so I need to remove the space between the "12" and the "F".
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Руслан Меджитов —  імунобіології Єльського університету, член  та дослідник . Його дослідження зосереджені на аналізі вродженої імунної системи, запальної реакції, вродженого контролю адаптивного імунітету та взаємодії господар-патоген.

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Народився в Ташкенті, Узбекистан, отримав ступінь бакалавра наук у Ташкентському державному університеті, захистив докторську дисертацію з біохімії в Московському державному університеті. У 1993 році працював у лабораторії  в Каліфорнійському університеті в Сан-Дієго. 1994—1999 рік постдок під керівництвом  на Медичному факультеті Єльського університету.

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Re: July 4th Holiday Traffic
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July 4th Holiday Traffic
July 03, 2017 04:53PM Registered: 11 years ago
I'm getting horror stories from people that visited: line of cars, backed up 5 miles from the entrances early afternoons. Once inside the park, additional 2-3 hour waits for parking. No one around to direct traffic. Same bottleneck crap at Bridalveil (not just cars, but hour + long waits to use the putrid, horrid restroom facilities). Third world stuff IMO.
Millions of people are involved, it's no longer natural folks. Time has come to consider biting the bullet and modernize a bit. Doesn't have to be inside the park, build outside of it. Implement a good shuttle system. Maybe even a lottery system for just visiting.
Discuss, flame.
For me, yes and no. The shuttle system at Zion, which services the main canyon during the busiest months, seems to be over-whelmed at times as there are way more people then buses to carry them into the park. Only visitors staying at the Zion Lodge are permitted to drive into the canyon. Yosemite could try and do the same thing but where would you park hundreds of cars so that visitors could take a shuttle? I like the thought of less cars in the valley but I also don't like the thought of having to take an over-crowded shuttle into the park. Not sure what the answer is.
I agree with you - yes and no for a system like Zion. I have been on those horrible crowed Zion shuttles many times and there is no AC. As you know, the shuttle system works well in Zion because there are not as many visitors as Yosemite, the park is small and most people stay in Springdale right next to the park. With all of it entrances, people not always using the same entrance entering and exiting Yosemite, it's size and distance from the Valley from all of the entrances except Arch Rock, the Zion system would not work as well in Yosemite.
Of course you know what it is. Time to clear space, build some structures (maybe underground), create spaces to park. Millions of people, thousands of cars. Stop pretending it's natural.
July 05, 2017 12:41PM Registered: 7 years ago
book in advance for campsites: book in advance for wilderness permits: book in advance for hotels, but book in advance for car parking?? that would limit the numbers visiting the valley...and number of dollars that slosh around Yosemite. it'll never, ever happen. its as heretical as suggesting that Y's campsites should have hot water*&^%$. which is never, ever going to happen, after all, where would all the solar panels go?
Combination of garage(s), and/or open lots (think parking areas for amphitheatre venues) plus shuttle system. There's no funding for any real change, anyhow. But still worthy of discussion.
I dislike advanced parking permits as well. What about metered parking in certain zones (only on certain peak days)? Something has to be done. What happens when the park reaches 10 million visitors annually? We've entered 5 million territory, no?
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There's a lot money available for Yosemite. Don't know about now, but five years ago (in 2012) they still hadn't spent most of the money that Congress allocated to Yosemite to recover from the 2017 flood. The Park Service right now is working on plans to modernize the Bridalveil Facilities. We also should wait until the Merced River Plan items are fully implemented.
In regards to the lines at the Entrance pay stations, those lines can be more easily reduced by better staffing (so all entrance booths are open to peak hours), the use of express lanes (for those who have already purchases a park pass, and maybe purchasing some land down below in El Portal to relocated the pay stations down there where they could have four entrances booths instead of only two.
A lot of park visitors come from the Bay Area and Los Angeles region, maybe thought to to created a FasTrak lane at the Hwy 120 and Hwy 41 entrances for those who have FasTrak transponders install in their vehicles that will automatically deduct the entrance fee with passing through the pay station.
They are already trying out reserving parking in the new lot near Yosemite Lodge.
In wonder how the Yosemite Village traffic circle is holding up. For those have visited Yosemite recently, it it working as intended? Is there some confusion? Or are the backups from Curry Village just as bad as before?
When we were there at the end of May, people were having issues understanding what they were supposed to do at the circle and would not yield or would stop when they were not supposed to stop. Also, pedestrians were still walking in the road and not using the new path to the village. they also the entrances to the parking lot blocked off and there were still empty parking places and there was no traffic control to be seen anywhere near the parking lot which made exiting later a mess.
markskor
Asked a long-time Valley shuttle bus driver the same question.
'Sometimes a clusterfock, other times worse."
She went on to say that the evening exit times at that corner are about the same - still horrendous.
And here's another thing that NPS could do to reduce congestion with the valley: have the free shuttle service operate throughout the valley (not just the east valley) with regular service to Tunnel View and Bridalveil Fall.
I've been wanting them to do that for a while. And while they are at it, how about extending some bike trails all the way to the west end of the park too?
As for the overall congestion, I guess I'm fortunate enough to be able to just visit the other 3 seasons of the year. I love having the park almost to myself. :-)
July 06, 2017 03:31PM Admin
I think people should have to pass an entrance exam duiring crowded times.
I think people should have to pass exams anytime, not just the crowded times.
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Turkish envoy lauds Rouhani trip
Tehran, June 28, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Turkey was quite perfect and satisfactory, said the Turkish ambassador to Iran.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark Egypt's National Day at the residence of Khaled Amareh, the head of Egypt's Interest Section in Iran, Umit Yardim told the English-language paper ˈIran Dailyˈ, published Saturday, that both parties made good preparations for the visit and held favorable meetings on the sidelines.
He noted the importance of Rouhani's short visit to Turkey was due to the fact that it was the first official visit of an Iranian president to Turkey in 18 years.
Yardim recalled that the last time an Iranian president visited Turkey was about 18 years ago when former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani travelled to the country.
The Turkish ambassador said both parties could achieve their expectations during the visit.
Now it is time to follow up all the decisions and agreements which the two sides signed during the visit, he said.
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He said as far as political relations are concerned, the visit was a milestone setting important cornerstone in the two countries' relations.
"In general sense, Iran and Turkey have favorable political ties. This visit contributed to these ties a lot and reinforced them. On the other hand there are other fields of relations such as trade and economy to which such visit can contribute.
ˈWe have to work hard in this regards because when the leadership takes decision to make some progress, all the systems and structures should be actively involved and support it to realize these targets. I have complete belief and trust that mutual ties between Iran and Turkey will improve.
However, we should know that concrete results cannot appear in a 10-day period. It will take time. In reality when you make a long-term decision, to implement it and see the outcomes, you need some time."
He added he is certainly positive and optimist about the future of the two countries relations.
"What is of utmost importance is that we have to carry the relations to higher levels. This is the main challenge faced by two countries. We say all the time that the current picture or level of relations does not reflect the two countries' potentials."
By IRNA
Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, Quoted, rouhani visit to Turkey, Turkish Ambassador to Tehran, Umit Yardim	June 28, 2014
Iran not to interfere in Iraq's internal affairs: Minister
France set to continue "complex" nuclear talks with Iran


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Title: Pictograph
Subject: History of painting, Lake Superior, Rangely, Colorado, Hells Canyon, 33rd century BC, Lake Superior Provincial Park, Adolph Gottlieb, Nanabozho, Petroform, Tabula Rasa (video game)
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A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto,[1] and also an 'icon', is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictorial in appearance.
Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. In certain modern use, pictograms participate to a formal language (e.g. Hazards pictograms).
2 Modern uses
3 Standardization
Early written symbols were based on pictographs (pictures which resemble what they signify) and ideograms (symbols which represent ideas). Ancient Sumerian, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations began to use such symbols over, developing them into logographic writing systems. Pictographs are still in use as the main medium of written communication in some non-literate cultures in Africa, The Americas, and Oceania. Pictographs are often used as simple, pictorial, representational symbols by most contemporary cultures.
Pictographs can be considered an art form, or can be considered a written language and are designated as such in Pre-Columbian art, Native American art, Ancient Mesopotamia and Painting in the Americas before Colonization. One example of many is the Rock art of the Chumash people, part of the Native American history of California. In 2011, UNESCO World Heritage adds to its list a new site "Petroglyph Complexes of the Mongolian Altai, Mongolia"[2] to celebrate the importance of the pictograms engraved in rocks.
Some scientists in the field of neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology, such as Prof. Dr. Mario Christian Meyer, are studying the symbolic meaning of indigenous pictograms and petroglyphs,[3] aiming to create new ways of communication between native people and modern scientists to safeguard and valorize their cultural diversity.[4]
Modern uses
An early modern example of the extensive use of pictographs may be seen in the map in the London suburban timetables of the London and North Eastern Railway, 1936-1947, designed by George Dow, in which a variety of pictographs was used to indicate facilities available at or near each station. Pictographs remain in common use today, serving as pictorial, representational signs, instructions, or statistical diagrams. Because of their graphical nature and fairly realistic style, they are widely used to indicate public toilets, or places such as airports and train stations.
Pictographic writing as a modernist poetic technique is credited to Ezra Pound, though French surrealists accurately credit the Pacific Northwest American Indians of Alaska who introduced writing, via totem poles, to North America.[5]
Contemporary artist Book from the Ground, a universal language made up of pictograms collected from around the world. A Book from the Ground chat program has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally.
Pictograms are used in many areas of modern life for commodity purposes, often as a formal language (see following section).
Pictographs can often transcend languages in that they can communicate to speakers of a number of tongues and language families equally effectively, even if the languages and cultures are completely different. This is why road signs and similar pictographic material are often applied as global standards expected to be understood by nearly all.
A standard set of pictographs was defined in the international standard ISO 7001: Public Information Symbols. Another common set of pictographs are the laundry symbols used on clothing tags and the chemical hazard symbols as standardized by the GHS system.
Pictograms have been popularized in use on the internet and in softwares, better known as "icons" displayed on a computer screen in order to help user navigate a computer system or mobile device.
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A pictograph warning against swimming because of crocodiles at the Australia Zoo.
Native American Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park
This sign warns that a stop sign is ahead.
Sample National Park Service pictographs
Pictograph from 1510 telling a story of coming of missionaries to Hispaniola
Olympic village pictogram at the 1972 Munich Olympics
Pull Sign for doors. Bowed door to the left shows force of door being pulled.
Push Sign for doors. Bowed door to the right shows force of door being pushed.
British Rail passenger safety pictographs at the end of the platform at Meols railway station
The top traffic sign warns people of horses and riders.
Water, rabbit, deer pictographs on a replica of an Aztec Stone of the Sun
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Crop art
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Petroform
Rock art of the Chumash people
Yakima Indian Painted Rocks
Reed, Ishmael (2003). From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, Ishmael Reed, ed. ISBN 1-56025-458-0.
Commons has media related to Pictograms.
Look up pictogram in , the free dictionary.
Pictogram & Communication: About 1,500 practial pictograms based on Design principles of pictorial symbols for communication support(JIS T 0103:2005)
CAPL:The Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon, photographic illustrations of objects for multiple languages
Pictogram Encyclopedia, The collection site of more than 500 pictograms, Pictograms are categorized, and easy to find unique pictogram
Pictopen - Modern Pictographic Writing
NounProject - Free Pictograms under open licences
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Colorado, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, United States, Denver, Town
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Taapsee Pannu Bags Cricketer Mithali Raj's Biopic, Film Goes on The Floors Next Year
After playing a hockey player in Soorma, Taapsee Pannu is gearing up to play with the bat in Mithali Raj's biopic that goes on the floors next year. Read on.
Updated: July 3, 2019 7:22 AM IST
By India.com Entertainment Desk Email
Edited by Vineeta Kumar EmailFollow
Taapsee Pannu/ Mithali Raj (Photo Courtesy: Instagram/ @taapsee, @mithaliraj)
Actor Taapsee Pannu has bagged herself an interesting project. It's the biopic of cricketer Mithali Raj, the captain of Indian women's cricket team. As revealed by Mumbai Mirror, the actor has given her nod to the film, however, the official formalities are yet to be completed. Taapsee has already played the character of a hockey player in Soorma that featured Diljit Dosanjh in the role of former Indian hockey player Sandeep Singh. Now, with Mithali Raj's biopic, Taapsee has got two sports biopic in her kitty.
The report in the daily quoted a source revealing that Taapsee is going to train herself rigorously to fit into the shoes of arguably one of the best Indian cricketers. The source said, "The formalities will be done once the studio has a director on board. They have also locked the story but the script is still being developed." The report added that the film is expected to go on the floors the next year once the team gets its director on board. Further, Taapsee has currently got a lot on her plate. The report added, "The film is expected to roll next year and Taapsee will undergo rigorous training in cricket as part of her prep."
Playing Mithali on-screen is not going to be a cakewalk for Taapsee. The cricketer is one of the best athletes India has produced in years. She has got some wonderful records to her name in the game. Mithali is the leading run-getter for India in T20Is in both men and women cricket. She has completed 20 years in international cricket and her spirit towards the game is unmatchable. She is the highest scorer in international women's cricket and the only female cricketer to go past the 6,000-run mark in WODIs.
Meanwhile, Taapsee just wrapped up the shooting of Saand Ki Aankh with Bhumi Pednekar. She's playing the oldest sharpshooter, popularly known as the Shooter Dadi, in the film which is being produced by Anurag Kashyap.
Published Date: July 3, 2019 7:20 AM IST
Updated Date: July 3, 2019 7:22 AM IST
Mithali RajTaapsee Pannu


Tim and Nikki Kuchta partner at work and home.
Nikki and Tim: We met at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota. We both transferred there the same year — Tim to play baseball and me to play basketball.
N and T: We have been married 20 years and dated for four years prior to that.
N and T: We have three children: Austin, 18; Maci, 15; and Zac, 10. Austin will graduate from Hickman High School this year and plans to attend Northwest Missouri State University in the fall to play baseball and study engineering. Maci is a freshman at Hickman, competing in basketball and pole vault. Zac is a fourth grader at Fairview and started playing basketball this year.
N: I enjoy exercising, coaching the kids, and doing yoga.
T: Working out, playing any kind of sports, rappelling, shooting, and taking krav maga classes. Also, I like reading anything about psychology, negotiations, or the mental conditioning of the mind.
N: His ability to adapt to a situation and think outside the box.
T: Her genuine interest in people and her ability to make everyone feel comfortable.
How would you describe your relationship in one word?
N: Eventful. There is never a dull moment between the normalcy of life, kids, and the business!
T: Blessed. Relationships go on cruise control from time to time, for good or bad, but working through differences and coming together is a feeling of being blessed.
N: With our business [Re/Max Brokers in Black], we tend to work at various hours of the day, so it can be a challenge to keep business and home life separate.
T: I've realized we perform many negotiations in both our personal and business world. The approaches vary from one to the next, but ultimately both need to be win–win.
What is your favorite outdoor activity in Columbia?
N: Walking or running on the trails or at the parks. Columbia is beautiful, and we're always finding new little spots to take the dogs out.
T: Trails, caves, and rappelling are the top three. I have too many favorites!
N: I really enjoy the real estate business and see myself continuing in this line of work for a long time.
T: Sticking with the 4G plan: keeping God in my life, playing some competitive golf, shooting my guns, and protecting my only girl.
N: We purchased an RV a few years ago, and our summer travels are my favorite thing.
T: Any kind of downtime or vacation time together. It's rare when everyone is in the same place at the same time, so that is special when it happens.
What is a proud moment you've shared with your spouse?
N: A remodel project that we worked on in Columbia. We tore down a house and started over. The finished product was beautiful.
T: When I received the Realtor of the Year award from the Columbia Board of Realtors. She wasn't formally recognized, but she was a huge reason I received the award. I felt like we accomplished it together.


What do you get with you combine the best high-tech materials, modern sport kite design technology, and a passion for spinning line laundry?? The answer is the newest series of accessories from Rob Brasington of Tasmania.
Rob unveiled the spinning collection in Long Beach last month and simply awed the local fliers. There are eight different pieces in a variety of styles, sizes, and performance. Each is made with ripstop nylon or polyester, carbon framing, and molded fittings.
Rob asked if we'd be interested in sharing the pieces with our friends and we jumped at the chance. So here is the deal -- we are taking orders now and will forward them to Australia on November 1. So pick a design and tell us your color preference too. We'll be planning for Holiday delivery. At that time, we'll also stock up on some supplies for Spring 2006. But you won't be able to order custom colors after we place the main order in November.
Constant slow rotation. Two colors in each panel.
2.1M long x 850mm at wing tips.
1.35M high x 850mm at wing tips.
1.15M in diametre x 670mm high.
1.5M high x 650MM diametre.
These are really the coolest pieces we've seen in a long time. So let us know which ones you can't live without. We'll get them ordered right up and hand-made by Rob himself for you.
We'll be closing the office next week as Susie and I travel to Ocean City for the AKA National Convention. Hope to see lots of you there. And yes, we'll have some special toys for our FlyMarket booth starting Thursday night.


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5 Security Reasons to Switch from WhatsApp to Signal
Let's have a look at 5 Security Reasons to Switch from WhatsApp to Signal that you should know and that will benefit you in securing your privacy and data in your smartphone
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hatsApp is probably the most used social media service throughout the world, the reason for its success being the great features and functions it provides to the users and apart from all those the quality of the security it provides to the users. The end to end encryption of messages while introduced to the WhatsApp it helped it grow more popular among the users and the people just started to shift from any other social media service to the WhatsApp. For your information let us tell you that the security that the WhatsApp integrates into is provided by the Open Whisper System 's secure protocol and multiple other popular like Facebook Messanger, Google Allo also use that same protocol for the security privileges. Now the motive of telling you about the Open Whisper System is that we are actually going to discuss the social media service named Signal that is made by the Open Whisper System only. And here in this article, we are going to tell you about the security reasons to switch from WhatsApp to the similar service Signal. If the security is your main focus for the social service then read about the Signal and it's edge over the WhatsApp in this article, just go and read it out now!
Also Read: How Hackers Hack WhatsApp Account
Below are the security reasons that you should know that will make you switch from WhatsApp.
Also Read: Top 7 Best Download Manager For Your Android Smartphone
#1 Metadata Encryption
Security Reasons to Switch from WhatsApp to Signal
The media content you share over WhatsApp have the metadata still not encrypted and that means the security fares for the metadata isn't very strong. The metadata stores the data like image size, pixels, camera model etc all. The signal, on the other hand, provides full security for the metadata and is also encrypted.
#2 In-App Encryption
The messages that are stored on your device aren't encrypted at all and this means that anyone could access your messages once the device is in their hands! In Signal all messages are encrypted well before being saved to the local drive ad for the purpose some sort of passphrase is used that is defined by the users only.
#3 Backup's Encryption
The backups for the messages that are created in the WhatsApp are not at all encrypted and this means that your messages could be accessed equally by the hackers but talking about the Signal it provides a well-defined encryption of the messages being backed up by the users.
Also Read: Top 10 Best Android Multiplayer Games To Play With Your Friends
#4 WhatsApp is Proprietary
WhatsApp doesn't provide any information about the source code for the encryption it provides while the users hence could not define the exact strength of the encryption they are actually using. Signal gives away the open source code for the encryption of the messages and therefore the people could test and make changes to the encryption of messages!
#5 Better Security Focused Settings
There is a feature inside Sigal by which the auto-destruct messages could be sent to the people which makes much more sense in the case of security. There are multiple other such features in Signal that are all related to the security of the messages and the conversations that users make.
Also Read: Top 7 Best Free Podcast Apps For Your Android Smartphone
So these were the 5 security reasons for which we prefer you to switch from the WhatsApp to the Signal and hope you might have liked about all those security edges that the Signal pledges over WhatsApp. My only preference is that if security is the must required flask for your transactions then why to switch to the WhatsApp which is hiring its security protocol from the developers of Signal, why not to go for the Signal only. It's now up to you to either switch to Signal or keeps using the WhatsApp!


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Interactions 2018 part II: "Beginning"
by Interactions | Sep 18, 2018 | interactions 2018
September 26 - 28 - ODA, ul. Dąbrowskiego 5
from 18:00 - Performance presentation
27-28 September - ODA, ul. Dąbrowskiego 5
from 11:00 - Discussion panels
Richard Piegza
Invited artists:
Mladen Milijanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina),
Jasmin Schaitl (Austria),
Diogo da Cruz (Portugal),
Natalia Lisova (Ukraine),
Ryo Ikeshiro (Japan),
Dominika Borkowska (Poland),
Izabela Chamczyk (Poland),
Anna Kalwajtys (Poland),
Karolina Kubik (Poland),
Zofia Kuligowska (Poland),
Julia Kurek (Poland),
Paweł Kwaśniewski (Poland),
Restaurant Europa Group (Poland).
Conducting discussion panels:
Łukasz Guzek
Przemysław Kwiek
Janusz Bałdyga
Grzegorz Borkowski
The almost twenty-year-old tradition of the "Interactions" festival requires reflections, conclusions and summaries that allow for the closure of one program cycle and at the same time opening a new perspective of the project.
"The End" and "The Beginning" are the key words that bind together the twenty-year series of the "Interactions" festival held in Piotrków Trybunalski in the years 1999 - 2017. This is enough time to bring up a historical perspective subject to archiving, hypotheses and analyzes. It entitles us to summarize from the point of view of the initiators and implementers of the project. On their basis, we try to plot the future of the "Interactions" festival, starting from 2019. So we are dealing with a historical analysis, elements of reconstruction related to the tradition of French post-Dadaism and Fluxus, and their contemporary consequences. We treat the twentieth festival "Interactions" as a key factor in the conscious closing of a certain series and at the same time working out and opening a new festival formula.
Hence the two distinct stages of this year's festival. The first one, from the perspective of twenty years, will present the French artistic community, which has made a key contribution to the founding process of Interaction. It will be confronted with Polish participants of the first festival. An important element of the project will be the presentation of people, places, ideas, documents and facts related to the first festival. The curator of this part of the festival, which takes place in accordance with the tradition in the month of May, will be, like twenty years earlier, Polish artist Ryszard Piegza, living in Paris. This stage will be an attempt to define from the perspective of twenty years the fact of starting "Interaction" and the emerging founding myth. It will be an attempt to answer the question of how the structure of the festival, participants and the slogan shape its later editions. Therefore, we will discuss the history, treating the output of "Interakcja" as an extremely valuable capital for reflection on the art of action in the world.
The second part, planned for September 2018, is the implementation of the concept of "The Beginning", a new perspective that involves a substantive reference to the meaning of "peripheries" treated as multi-level reality on a spatial, mental and technological scale. We want to raise the importance of the notion of periphery in relation to the recognized and exposed center. The concept of "center - periphery" was mentioned at the first festival as a reference both to the perception of performance art in the field of visual arts and to the location of the festival in Piotrków Trybunalski, a city outside the mainstream of cultural or scientific activities, but endowed with a rich historical context. After twenty years, it is necessary to verify the basic features of these two opposing concepts in the face of technological, informational and mental changes.
The first festival indicating and confirming the radiation of the great tradition of the center, which was Paris and its culture, displayed the idea of the center related to the broadly understood periphery. This year, we assume the inversion of the vector, focusing on peripheral places and their influence on the center with its established status. Hence, the decisive factor is not only the location of the festival, but also the selection of appropriate artists from countries such as Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, China, Israel, Poland. In September, we will present Polish and foreign artists who treat action art as an intermedium related to other art disciplines, such as drawing, sculpture, installation, film, or choreography, which is becoming more and more visible in the space of ephemeral arts. The invited foreign artists were selected as outstanding representatives of live art, so far absent from the Piotrków "Interactions". Each of them has the right to choose and present one artist in the festival program. Polish artists are also those with a recognized position both in Poland and in the world, as well as a group of young and middle-aged artists who in the past debuted at "Interactions", and today successfully continue their work in the field of live art. This will create an opportunity for a bipolar problem and generational order.
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
Co-financed by the City Hall in Piotrków Trybunalski.
Co-financed by the French Institute in Warsaw.


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Guyfriday
At least it doesn't have a trans-gender Wookie teaching the force to young jedi (or does it? Who the force care anymore) Also I always though Ewoks were bi-sexual so they made out at the end on RotJ, so why make a big deal out of this? Here if anyone want to see a much better movie with robots in it, go see "HeartBeeps". At least it doesn't try and shove "snowflake agenda" down your throat over story.
blueman12
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: blueman12
Why is sex in a kids movie worse than science fiction war in a kids movie? You serious?
Why is sex bad? It's natural to kiss and share love. It's not natural to kill other human beings..
Science fiction war? Last i remember.. people were cut in half with light sabers, burned with flamethrowers, and thousands dying over an empire trying to achieve its agenda of "peace".
And you're worried about two human beings (not hurting anyone) sharing their intimate feelings through physical interaction such as kissing..
LSU2018
a reply to: strongfp
That's exactly right. They don't hold up a big sign, so why the need for Star Wars to do so? I don't hold up a big sign expressing my heterosexualism either. And you linked video games. I was talking about the movies. There aren't any gay characters.
a reply to: Bluntone22
That was sarcasm, lol.
Underworld is one of my top 5 favorite franchises.
Grimpachi
The SJW progressive bubble are mad about a lot of things with TROS.
They sidelined Rose Tico after she sabotaged the rebellion/resistance when Fin was about to save the day then sexually assaulted him. There are some funny theories online that she was a double agent.
I read that the Millenium Falcon kept crashing and catching on fire in this one because of the piece Rey took out of it.
Kathleen Kennedy is pissed because she wanted Rey to wind up being some godlike being at the end but Bob Igor said hell no.
I am not going to watch the movie but when some of the Youtube reviews from those like the Critical Drinker come out I will watch those.
originally posted by: rickymouse
A lot of TV shows in America have parts with gay people in their cast. People have this notion that about twenty plus percent or more of Americans are lgbtq but in actuality there is less than five percent. So, why so many gay people in Hollywood productions? In our area there are probably about three to four percent of the population that fit into the LGBTQ definition. Most of them do not advertise that they are gay, understanding the majority of people are not comfortable with it.
Evidently the greatest deception promotor in the country, Hollywood, wants us to believe there are way more of these people than there are since so many shows have gay people in their cast. Is there that many Gays in Hollywood? Is California that far off with the rest of the country percentage wise or is it just that Gays there have BSed the producers that there is a lot more gay people watching TV than straight people.
I have nothing against those with different sexual preferences, but I do not want them shoving their way down my throat, I do not have to bow down to them and they do not have to bow down to me. It is there life, I respect their ability to choose the way they want to be. But so many people think there are way more LGBTQ than there really is, and many of the Bi's do turn straight when they get older. Remember, some of the less than five percent figures come from prison inmates.
That's all Hollywood... They're full of pedophiles and cater to the gay community and other progressive organizations.
Like you, I couldn't care less if two people of the same sex are in love or like each other, but there's no need to push it in almost every show. They even do it in IT Chapter 2.
strongfp
a reply to: LSU2018
The history of homosexuals in the US is why scenarios like pride parades exist, and it's seems like they are shoving it down your throat, but it has a deeper meaning.
For example, million man march for civil rights. It wasn't about getting civil rights, or being treated equal it was more about; LOOK WE ARE HERE AND THERE'S LOTS OF US! And we want to be given opportunities as well!
The history of the LGBTLMNOQ what ever it is now, isn't very pretty. Anyways...
I knew you would bring up the technicality as in 'movies', which is why I differentiated between the two, and Lucasarts gave the OK to allow more characters into the movies, which also gave way to all the gay, and transpecies, and what ever.
Either way, it's a kiss, and lesbians exist, they have for who knows how long. Humans are just horny.
a reply to: Metallicus
Pretty much... I can understand the hook up between Leia and Solo because they had a kid later. I can understand the hook up between Padame and Anakin because they had a kid later.


Maz Jackson has spent a lifetime drawing and painting in rural Norfolk UK. The landscape, history and its people enrich her imagery which can be interpreted in many ways and relate to many cultures across the globe. Winner of national and international awards, her work continues to be exhibited and collected by galleries, museums and private collections across the UK, Europe, Japan, China, USA and Mexico. Her work has been exhibited at Florence, Palermo and Venice Biennale (New York Arts Pavilion), where she represented the UK. She has also exhibited at Le Grande Palais, Paris (Salon des Independants), Prince Ranier's Auditorium, Monaco, Royal Academy, Mall Galleries, Bankside Gallery, London and many more.
Egg tempera has had less restoration than any other paint medium in history. Maz creates her work using fifteenth century methods recorded by Cennino de Andrea Cennini. Imagery is worked up in tempera comprised of mineral pigments, such as lapis lazuli, mixed with egg yolk and distilled water. The tempera is laid down on gessoed, linen wrapped oak panels between gilded shapes of 24 carat gold leaf. Much time passes between each process, many drawings of thoughts and ideas form stimuli for the paintings, some become series of prints, scrolls, artists books and sculptures.
"Ideas are sourced from anything that excites: people, love, communication, touch, tension, laughter, flight, landscape, the spaces between and things sacred".
"I have a deep interest in colour, line, mark-making and edge, which all come into play when working in paint, drawing and print. I wish my work to have a timeless quality which the on-looker can dip into and be instilled with ever-changing thoughts, questions and smiles."
Professor Giampoala Trotta of Florence "Maz Jackson is an imaginative and allegorical post-modern medievalist." A quote from his paper based on her solo show at Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence.
Jeff Borgeau Director of Museum of New Art Detroit " Opening the crate containing Maz's art was like opening a casket revealing a precious jewel"
Pasqaule Celona President of Florence Biennale on seeing her work when visiting Le Salon des Independants, Grand Palais Paris. " Maz Jackson's work is so beautiful, it is like the tree of life" (Maz is a Florence Biennale Artist representing the UK).